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Kate Wilhelm, author of many of science fiction’s seminal books and stories (e.g. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang), would have been a titan in the field if she had only wrote; but Wilhelm’s prodigious authorly accomplishments are matched by her influence on the generations of writers trained in…

Like many of the most popular websites, Wikimedia — which oversees Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons among other sites and services — publishes a transparency report in which it details commercial and governmental requests for surveillance and content removal.
But of course, Wikipedia is a wiki, meaning that the…

Illustration: Rob Beschizza Donald Trump was so eager for Vladi­mir Putin to attend his 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, he personally wrote the Russian President a letter inviting him. Robert Mueller’s investigative team somehow got a copy of the document. It is the first known communication that shows Trump…

On March 7, the Florida legislature passed a gun control bill in a bipartisan 67-50 vote, banning bump-stocks and imposing a 3-day waiting period on long-gun purchases and raising the minimum age for their purchase to 21; the legislation is a mixed bag as it also includes millions to…

A war hero who’s saved American lives under fire deserves the best care that the U.S. government can muster. It’s the very least they deserve for bravely serving overseas. Unfortunately, not all soldiers returning from active duty have been paid this respect. According to Reuters, the United State Army has…

Stormy Daniels’ new lawsuit against Donald Trump says their “hush agreement” is invalid because ‘David Dennison’ (the president’s sex pseudonym) never signed it.
Donald Trump never signed the nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer Michael Cohen arranged with porn performer Stormy Daniels, according to a lawsuit filed by Daniels today…

According to The Hill, a Florida middle school teacher who moonlighted as a hate-spewing white nationalist podcast host has been removed from the classroom by the school board she worked for. Her suspension from shaping young minds was put in place by school board officials while they investigate exactly how…

Dayanna Volitich is a 25-year-old social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School in Florida. She is the host (under the pseudonym “Tiana Dalichov”) of a white nationalist podcast called “Unapologetic.” Sample quote: “So many other researchers have already looked into this and that’s just the way it is —…

The Seasteading Institute is a group of libertarian separatists who dreamed of building an autonomous, contract-governed mini-state on a set of floating platforms in the south Tahiti lagoon of Atimaono; only one problem: they didn’t renew their contract with French Polynesia to build their platforms.
The Seasteaders had…

We all know that Poland resisted the Nazi invasion and that Poles and Polish Jews bore the brunt of the Holocaust. But the world is now finding out all about Polish complicty in the Holocaust, thanks to its government trying to ban discussion of it.
The new law, which…